My Memories Of Literacy

My literacy skills began to develop much like Deborah Brandt suggests in her article of “Sponsors of literacy” My first memories of learning to write are still quite vivid. I remember holding a big fat crayon in my hand as my mother showed me how to write my name. She would draw a large line on the page and I would copy her movements. We started with capital letters and moved on to lower case letters. My memories of learning to read are similar. I remember my mother reading me picture books with large print that somehow turned in to reading sentences. Most of my early memories of learning to read and write include sitting with my mother, older sister and brothers. I had never really thought about the influence your family has on your reading

Literacy is something that is dynamic and complicated. It is something that cannot be restrained to simply reading directly from a book or perhaps writing words onto a piece of paper. Literacy is far more complex than that; it is something that can be found all around us in newspapers, books, the Internet, television, and conversation throughout our community resources. All in all literacy is something so active and diverse that it is constantly being influenced by different sources and situations. Being able to identify your literacy elements is to identify your sponsorship. Sponsorship is a simply variety of people and foundations in your life which have helped developed your literacy; as in “Sponsors of Literacy” by Deborah Brandt she emphasizes that, “Sponsors seemed a fitting term for the figures who turned up most typically in people’s memories of literacy

(Pg47) Having my parents and family being the biggest influences on literacy and stressing the importance of being literate. Around the age of five or six as I began school teachers began to shape and mold my style of reading and writing. My teachers were a great contribution to my foundation of reading and writing skills, around the age of five or six as I began school they help began to shape and mold my style of reading and writing. As I attended school I was given a lot of assignments in writing the alphabet and reading to enhance learning and my ability in literacy began to develop even further. My teachers were a great help although my family contributed to my reading skills as well. Not only did my mom sit with me and read most days, I was the youngest of four and my siblings who were much older spent time enhancing my literacy skills specific my sister who was older by 8 years. Throughout all the stages of my life there has been people who have always encouraged me to learn. Literacy is a very important aspect in life and knowing how to read and write with ease is a life skill that is very valuable. I remember when I was a young child, my mother would read